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Held by Cultural Collections at the University of Leeds, the earliest-known English book about…
Here's what I'll be watching this week in the sale rooms:On Tuesday, April 22, New England Book…
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The Morgan Library & Museum will open A Celebration: Acquisitions in Honor of the Morgan’s Centennial, an exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Pierpont Morgan Library as a public institution on May 9.
Author, artist, and designer Edward Gorey created work that has permeated both our commercial and cultural worlds and a showcase of his 50-year career at Texas A&M University’s Cushing Memorial Library & Archives is running through September 17.
This year's Lyell Lectures will be given by Professor Leah Price at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford and via Zoom. The series will look at how Victorians and their servants interacted with books and their respective reading lives.
A broadside announcing martial law during the 1921 Tulsa Race massacre will be offered in Heritage Auctions' April 25-26 Americana & Political auction.
A new exhibition at the Grolier Club will examine the verbal and visual qualities of experimental poetry presented by publishers of small independent presses.
Here are the sales I'll be watching this week:
An important archive of Alan Turing's unpublished Second World War papers has been saved from leaving the UK following a collaboration between various institutions.
December 4, 1965, marked the live debut of the Grateful Dead and tacked up around San Jose was the band's simple, hand-drawn poster asking: “Can you pass the Acid Test?”. It is among the highlights of Heritage Auctions' April 17-19 Music Memorabilia & Concert Posters auction.This particular…
Reseachers examining volumes held by European monasteries have revealed that rather than deer or boar skin, sealskin was used in their construction.
Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them is a rollicking visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science. It's my third nonfiction book, involved a lot of research and a bit of book collecting, and came out in…
